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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Borowitz: Huckabee Sanders to help Saudi Arabia lie

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald
J. Trump has dispatched the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, to Saudi Arabia to provide what the White House on Thursday
called “essential lying advice and assistance.”

According to the
counsellor to the President Kellyanne Conway, “The President was not
happy with the quality of lies coming out of the Saudi royal family, and
who better to fix that than Sarah Sanders?”

Sources close to
Sanders said that the press secretary was “horrified” during her first
meeting in Riyadh to discover that the crown prince’s lying skills were
“rudimentary at best.”

“The absence of a free press in Saudi
Arabia means that M.B.S.”—Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—“has had
virtually zero experience lying to reporters,” Sanders reportedly told
one of her aides. “The learning curve is going to be steep.”

In
perhaps her most withering comment on the state of the Saudis’ lying,
Sanders said, “These clowns could never have gotten Kavanaugh
confirmed.”